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Psychiatric hospital in hot water after showing ‘Silence of the Lambs’ to mentally ill children
A court has fined a Moscow psychiatric hospital for showing the 1991 American film The Silence of the Lambs to a group of mentally ill children. The amount of the fine remains unknown, but the law allows a maximum penalty of 50,000 rubles ($1,000).
The hospital in question was recently at the center of another scandal, when photographs leaked showing some child patients tied to their beds.
“The institution has been found guilty of committing a civil offense by showing inappropriate material to a group of minors with severe mental disorders,” a Kremlin official told the news agency Interfax.